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Homo sapiens Protein: LCN6
Summary
InnateDB Protein IDBP-92608.5
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol LCN6
Protein Name lipocalin 6
Synonyms
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Protein ENSP00000339621
InnateDB Gene IDBG-707750 (LCN6)
Protein Structure
UniProt Annotation
Function May play a role in male fertility.
Subcellular Localization Secreted. Note=Located on the head and tail of spermatozoa with the highest concentration on the post- acrosomal region of the head, where it appears aggregated into large patches.
Disease Associations
Tissue Specificity Predominantly expressed in epididymis.
Comments
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 0 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
Biological Process
GO:0007338 single fertilization
Cellular Component
GO:0005576 extracellular region
Protein Structure and Domains
PDB ID
InterPro IPR000566 Lipocalin/cytosolic fatty-acid binding domain
IPR011038 Calycin-like
PFAM PF00061
PF08212
PRINTS
PIRSF
SMART
TIGRFAMs
Post-translational Modifications
Modification
Cross-References
SwissProt P62502
PhosphoSite PhosphoSite-P62502
TrEMBL K7ERN5
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 158062
UniGene Hs.522504
RefSeq NP_945184
HUGO HGNC:17337
OMIM 609379
CCDS CCDS7005
HPRD 17268
IMGT
EMBL AF303084 AL355987 AY301269 AY358598 BC062746 CH471090
GenPept AAH62746 AAQ14494 AAQ81974 AAQ88961 CAQ09953 EAW88259 EAW88260 EAW88261

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Breuer et al., InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond - recent updates and continuing curation. Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1) 

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